Maine Punk History

1980 flier for The Donn’s 2 night stand at The Downtown Lounge in Portland. Hailing from Brooksville, The Donn’s were one of the first punk bands in Maine.

2004 Flier for a show put on by Muscle City Productions at The Industry in Portland. I could definitely use more info on Clit 45 and Complete Control.

Pigeon Pit Live at The Bike Barn on 2025-06-24 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 01. Intro02. Bad Advice03. Empties04. Stone Song05. Love Letters > Milk Crates06. Wichitalk07. X?08. Nights Like These09. River Song10. Bronco11. Crazy...

Live audio recording from last week’s Pigeon Pit show at @bikebarn.bsky.social is up on the Live Music Archive. More audio from this show coming soon! archive.org/details/pige...

Parking is always an issue, so carpool if you can and please check out edgewood-nursery.com/parking for detailed info on where to park. Please don’t park on Blackstrap rd.

Time for another show at the Bike Barn! June 24th we’ve got Pigeon Pit from WA coming through with local support from Myles Bullen and Milk St. $15 cash NOTAFLOF. Doors at 6pm / Show at 7pm. All ages welcome. It’s probably gonna be pretty packed, so wear a mask.

You should definitely go see @takaat.bsky.social on their tour if you can

I just uploaded the audio from Takaat’s set at The Apohadion last week to the Live Music Archive at archive.org. Thanks to @takaat_ for giving permission to share the audio! archive.org/details/taka...

Highly recommend checking out @takaat.bsky.social if their tour is coming to your area. (These @ s are IG handles)

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Great show last night at the Apohadeon in Portland with Takaat (Niger) and Crazy Deja Vu (Maine).

Spoonboy Live at The Office on 2005-03-03 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 01. Another Song About the Rain 02. The Restaurant 03. 04. Nihilism 05. My Generation 06. Fireball Or 07. California 08. Ghost Song 09. What You Want / Hell...

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Anyway, I miss those days, those friends, those shows… and the Odwalla dumpster.

This show was brought to mind recently when @cisgenderstudies.bsky.social mentioned it when talking about how The New Yorker profiled Patrick Schneeweis aka Pat the Bunny, lead singer/songwriter of Johnny Hobo and many other bands, currently in @friendsinreallife.bsky.social

This was the first show Johnny Hobo ever played outside of VT. Audio recordings exist of the whole show and Spoonboy, The Lanterns and Johnny Hobo sets are linked below.

2005 flyer for a folk-punk show at a vacant office space on middle st in Portland. I believe Spoonboy was the instigating artist for this one and the other acts were local/regional folks who @samn thought would be a good match. I remember this show well, although I lost the photos I took.

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

The Brood was an all women garage-punk band from Portland, Chris Horne from this band is still playing shows regularly with her newer band Tiger Bomb. I don’t know anything about Have Not, so please fill in that blank if you can. From the collection of Lenny Smith and Jordan Kratz

2 1993 fliers for Tribe 8 playing at Zootz with local support from The Brood and Have Not. I’ve got both the show flier and the ledger size color poster from the this Tribe 8 tour. Tribe 8 was a pretty early queercore band from SF.

Flyer of unknown origin and date. I'm guessing 1990s? Maybe Y2k? I sure am glad it's not more relevant than ever in today's climate 🙄. From the collection of Lenny Smith and Jordan Kratz.

If I didn’t have a binder full of fliers I would have no idea when anything happened.

Had to dig out the flier for that show. Almost exactly 20 years ago. I emailed Pat about 6 months ago, and he reminded me that this was his first show outside of VT.

Wooooow, the world makes less sense everyday.

Flier for Big Meat Hammer and Maelstrom at Zootz in Portland, year unknown. From the collection of Lenny Smith and Jordan Kratz.

2012 digital flier for a show at The Flask in Portland. From the collection of Derrick Cameron

#F47 #transrights #maine

A selection of photos of The Pontiffs from the collection of Gina Brown . The Pontiffs were a punky rock n roll band started by Kip Brown in 1991 that continued until the 2000s. They had a large catalog of original tunes, but never released any recordings that I'm aware of.

1990s flier from 3 shows at The Cybernaculum in Portland. The first posting from the @lenny.smith.73 / Jordan Kratz combined archive. The Cybernaculum remains a bit of a mystery, I’m fairly certain it was around for less than a year, but I’ve seen stuff from there dated 1991-1994.

The Skatistics and 2 unknown bands playing at The Well in Portland 12-14-2001. A bunch more photos on insta/fb.

But sometimes I post a flier with no info and people fill in with great stories and detailed info... or not. I hope you all are doing ok in these fucked up times.

A real mystery flier from the collection of Skummy Bob Farrington. I don't know these bands, I don't know The Funhouse, no idea what year this is from, or even the date on that year. Might not even be a Maine flier (about 10% of his collection was out of Maine, mostly NH).